[The virtues of the doctor: A look trought some clinical cases]

The practice of medicine and the search for professional excellence in current times force us to rethink whether only the principles of personalistic and principled bioethics are enough to be able to be better and better health agents; a renewed interest in the ethics of virtues and their implementation is probably the answer to this question. The intention of this article is to concisely explain some of the virtues that we believe a good health professional should have and how they influence their daily practice.